Posts by Donna

Unit 3:Reflections—The impact of structure on my digital plans As a visual person, I particularly relate to diagrams, and found the Anderson and Dron typology discussion helpful. 1Dron, J., and Anderson, T. (2014). Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media. Athabasca University Press. The authors offer a rule of thumb for guidance, as follows: If the social entity persists even if there are no participants, likely it is a group. If...

I have many years’ experience in creating and managing internet content, and consider myself both digitally literate and digitally competent, based on my “confident and critical use of digital technologies for learning, work and leisure.” 1Ryberg. T., & Georgsen, M. (2010). Enabling digital literacy. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 2(5). On the other hand, I have about three weeks’ experience formally analyzing my past...

What a fascinating process! It was interesting to try to map the sorts of activities I use online. As I developed the map, I discovered that, although I have a significant online presence, it isn’t a residential presence. [Click the image to view the full-scale map]   Google and Google Docs are pervasive to me, shown as a large, amorphous shape. The large spiral that overlaps the Google shape denotes email, which is the...

The overall message for me from the week is the pervasiveness of learning. Two presentations resonated with me, and made the most sense with my current level of knowledge. Learning Ecosystem One meaningful session was the Learning ecosystem model that Dave Cormier described in his presentation, Intentional messiness of online communities. I have pasted a screen capture from his presentation: In the model, the X-axis continuum runs...